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Re: IA64 port
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Robert Millan |
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Re: IA64 port |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:48:29 +0100 |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:38:20PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:46:50PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > In this case, FAT is modified so fit the need of EFI. However, FAT is
> > > case insensitive. On windows C:\FOO.TXT is the same as c:\foo.txt.
> > > Although I have troubles believing people want to use a technically
> > > flawed non-free OS that costs a lot of money. But that might be
> > > something personally ;-)
> > >
> > > What matters is that it is normal that FAT is not case sensitive.
> > > It's defined that way. This change can't and won't be made for ext2,
> > > for example. You can have a ~/foo and ~/FOO side by side. AFAIK,
> > > this is not possible with FAT. So I think this patch is ok :-)
> >
> > I may lack some perspective on how FAT works internally, so please bear with
> > me, but as far as I can see:
> >
> > - FAT is not really case insensitive any more than its path names are
> > 8.3-limited. It originally was, but latest revisions don't enforce
> > these limitations.
>
> FAT is now case preserving but still case insensitive. Like MacOS filesystem.
AFAIK, there's no standard specifiing FAT, only a few implementations that act
de-facto as a "reference". Because of this, it is up to us to decide what is
"standard" and what is just an OS-dependant oddity.
Since the choice is arbitrary, why not choose based on the merits of each
option, rather than based on what some implementations do?
--
Robert Millan
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- Re: IA64 port, (continued)
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port,
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- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30